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PRACE 2017 Winter School opens Feb. 6

The PRACE 2017 Winter School training program in supercomputing opens on Monday, February 6, 2017. This is the second time PRACE has chosen Israel as an HPC training site. Demand for the program was strong with registration closing early due to being oversubscribed. Presentation and summaries will be posted to the IUCC website soon.

INCREASED CONNECTIVITY WITH AFRICA

A new 100Gbps transatlantic sub-sea cable supplied by AquaComms has been switched on to enable extensive data sharing between GÉANT, the UbuntuNet Alliance, and Indiana University co-led Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR) initiative to improve research collaborations between Europe, Africa, and the US. [more]

PRACE Preparatory Access Type D expected early 2017

The objective of PRACE Preparatory Access is to allow PRACE users to optimise, scale and test codes on PRACE systems. Preparatory Access (PA) Type D offers users to start the optimisation work on a PRACE Tier-1 system to finally reach PRACE Tier-0 system scalability.[more]

Cloud Computing Grants

HPC open calls

about iucc

IUCC (Hebrew: מחב”א‎, MACHBA), was established in 1984 by Israel’s eight universities to operate and maintain the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Israel and provide a wide range of digital research and educational services.More»